Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Tony and Stephen are still at home and Terry 's safe out of it all in Germany , Joe 's safe too training the young lads , and so is Eileen . |
2 | The American government owns one-third of the nation 's land , much of it rich in resources . |
3 | The simple-mindedness of their consideration makes the object of it complex in comparison — so complex that it becomes difficult to understand how mere mortal man has ever managed to enjoy anything . |
4 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
5 | Capture the winner and you and a companion could be getting away from it all in style . |
6 | 31 Fringe benefits Colin Ward gets away from it all in Dartington |
7 | I 'll keep the one that was in it safe in case its owner turns up . ’ |
8 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |